Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

New member in the boardroom and subsequent strategic change in the product-market scope of the firm

New member in the boardroom and subsequent strategic change in the product-market scope of the firm The purpose of this paper is to explore the linkages between the appointment of a new management board member and the following strategic change (SC) in the product-market scope of the firm.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on the whole population of Estonian firms, in total 16,941 observations and the data are retrieved from Estonian Business Register. First, the authors focus on the association between the appointment of a new board member and the likelihood of different types of SC. Second, the authors focus on the association between the new board member’s previous export experience and export-related SC. Logistic regressions are applied for all models.FindingsThe results indicate that there is a significant association between the appointment of a new board member and the subsequent start of exports and also continuing it, entrance into a new industry and making an SC in more broad terms, though the significance levels vary across the composed models. No significant relationship was found with the entrance into the additional geographic market(s) for already exporting firms. There was also a significant association between the previous export experience of a new board member and the subsequent start of exporting.Originality/valueThe authors look at SC in the product-market domain holistically by applying the same data on both geographic and product portfolio expansion options. The authors also introduce the scale and stability contexts of SCs. These aspects are usually neglected from similar studies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of International Business and Strategy Emerald Publishing

New member in the boardroom and subsequent strategic change in the product-market scope of the firm

Download PDF
21 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/new-member-in-the-boardroom-and-subsequent-strategic-change-in-the-IBWaOHvmQX

References (60)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
2059-6014
DOI
10.1108/ribs-09-2019-0130
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the linkages between the appointment of a new management board member and the following strategic change (SC) in the product-market scope of the firm.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on the whole population of Estonian firms, in total 16,941 observations and the data are retrieved from Estonian Business Register. First, the authors focus on the association between the appointment of a new board member and the likelihood of different types of SC. Second, the authors focus on the association between the new board member’s previous export experience and export-related SC. Logistic regressions are applied for all models.FindingsThe results indicate that there is a significant association between the appointment of a new board member and the subsequent start of exports and also continuing it, entrance into a new industry and making an SC in more broad terms, though the significance levels vary across the composed models. No significant relationship was found with the entrance into the additional geographic market(s) for already exporting firms. There was also a significant association between the previous export experience of a new board member and the subsequent start of exporting.Originality/valueThe authors look at SC in the product-market domain holistically by applying the same data on both geographic and product portfolio expansion options. The authors also introduce the scale and stability contexts of SCs. These aspects are usually neglected from similar studies.

Journal

Review of International Business and Strategy – Emerald Publishing

Published: Sep 11, 2020

Keywords: Diversification; Corporate governance; Export; Strategic change; Industry; Geographic markets

There are no references for this article.